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Show Atmosphere of Fear From Bottom to Top in World of Business By ANNE W. ARMSTRONG, Business Problem Lecturer. Our great businesses are breeding atmospheres in which fear flourishes. Granite walls, marble corridors, smart uniformed guides, hushed anterooms, ante-rooms, luxurious suites the environment conspires to awe what with all its bravado is the essentially timid human spirit. But it is not merely a question of the problem of the right kind of home-like and amiable scenery. To be candid, it is the business leader far more than the business scene that prevents business life from fulfilling more of the conditions of the good life.. They have become unapproachable and cold in their personal relations with their employees. And this has made their employees afraid pf them. And so there is fear in the ranks of labor in our great corporations. But there is also fear at the top. Business leaders are plagued day and night by visions of Bolshevists and a hundred other bugaboos. Many business men see industrial spooks everywhere and they live in a stats of perpetual fear. , If it is not fear, what is the source of that savage abuse heaped upon anyone who presumes to point out a singe business blemish? In Roosevelt's Roose-velt's day, he was, at worst, a muckraker. Now even the most friendly and good-humored critic of business has become the garbage gatherer. Or he has fastened upon him the supreme epithet of condemnation "Uplifter." e must get rid of fear in business. It is destroying character. It is limiting production. It is keeping business back. |
